NHS Student Newsletter May 2019

Dear NHS Students, Faculty, and Alumni, Summer is here! We are gearing up for ASN Nutrition 2019 Conference in Baltimore, MD.A schedule of posters and oral presentations from NHS students is included in thenewsletter. Best wishes to first-years gearing up for the comprehensive exams in June! In the Fall, wewill welcome the new NHS cohort: Yara Beyh, Ben Cousineau, Mica Jenkins, Jane Obi,Brigitte Pfluger, and Euisun (Irene) Pyo. As always, please let us know about any of your accomplishments and feel free to email us(pnesbet@emory.edu, npoveda@emory.edu) with any feedback or events that you wantlisted! Cheers, Paula and Natalia

CONFERENCES

Nutrition 2019 (American Society for Nutrition) When: June 8-11, 2019 Where: Baltimore, MD More information here American Diabetes Association 79th Scientific Sessions When: June 7-11, 2019 Where: San Francisco, CA More information here Society for Epidemiologic Research When: June 18-21, 2019

Where: Minneapolis, MN More information here FNCE (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) When: October 26-29, 2019 Where: Philadelphia, PA Late-breaking abstracts: May 1 – 30, 2019 More information here American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo When: Nov 2-6, 2019 Where: Philadelphia, PA More information here Obesity Week When: November 3-7, 2019 Where: Las Vegas, NV More information here Micronutrient Forum 5th Global Conference 2020 When: March 23-27, 2020 Where: Bangkok, Thailand Abstracts submission deadline: July 12, 2019 Registration opens: September 2019 More information here

NHS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Joseph Roberts (4th year) Joe won a poster competition in December 2018 at the University of Alabama-Birmingham's Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, Bone, and Autoimmunity CenterResearch day Poster title: "Probiotic supplements accelerate bone repair and prevent systemic bone lossfollowing femoral fracture" He also gave a talk at the Emory University Musculoskeletal Research day (April 2019) onhis dissertation work. Talk title: "Probiotic supplementation accelerates bone repair andprevents post-traumatic bone loss." Kristine Dennis (3rd year)

Kristine had a paper published recently: Dennis KK, Go YM, Jones DP. (2019) Redox systems biology of nutrition and oxidativestress. Journal of Nutrition. PMID: 30949678. She also presented a poster titled: “Characterization of phytochelatins in commonlyconsumed plant foods with metabolomics”. Dennis KK, Liu KH, Uppal K, Ma C, Go YM,Jones DP. Gordon Research Conference: Metabolomics and Human Health, February2019. Ahlia Sekkarie (3rd year) Successfully defended her dissertation proposal: “The impact of maternal and earlychildhood diet on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease”. Reshma Roshania (3rd year) Successfully defended her dissertation proposal: “Circular Migration and Child Nutrition inBihar, India”. Rukshan Mehta (3rd year) Successfully defended her dissertation proposal: "Environmental and Food SystemsExposures during Lactation: Are mycotoxins and pesticides in breastmilk associated withinfant growth faltering in Haryana, India?" Lucas Gosdin (2nd year) Successfully defended his dissertation proposal: “Iron and folic acid supplementation foranemia control among adolescent girls: effectiveness of school-based delivery”. Lucas gave a short talk entitled “Healthful Diets for a Healthy Planet” at the Eating toPreserve the Globe” at an Emory event, Eating to Preserve the Globe: A Dinner andConversation about Your Impact on the World. He was also recently selected as a 2019 Laney Graduate School Piedmont TATTO Fellowin Sustainability, Teaching, and Curriculum. Sonia Tandon (1st year) Sonia had two papers published recently: Maternal hemoglobin concentrations across pregnancy and maternal and child health: asystematic review and meta-analysis. Young MF, Oaks BM, Tandon S, Martorell R, DeweyKG, Wendt AS. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2019; Review. Effects of Supplemental Calcium and Vitamin D on Expression of Toll-Like Receptors andPhospho-IKKα/β in the Normal Rectal Mucosa of Colorectal Adenoma Patients. Hodge R,Mandle HB, Ray S, Tandon S, Peterson M, Henry A, Jahan FA, Bostick RM, Baron JA,Barry EL, Yacoub R, Rutherford RE, Seabrook ME, Fedirko V. Cancer Prev Res (Phila).2018;11 (11):707-716.

Paula Nesbeth (1st year) Paula was selected as a 2019 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship HonorableMention.

NHS @ ASN NUTRITION 2019 Posters/Oral presentations

Saturday, June 8, 2019

Presenter Name Oral or Poster Presentation Time Location

Moriah Bellissimo Poster #490 12:00-1:00 pm Halls A & B/ The Hub

Lucas Gosdin Oral presentation 9:30 - 9:45 am Room 317

Lucas GosdinEmerging Leaders in Nutrition

Science Poster Competition6:00 - 7:00 pm Hall B

Joe RobertsEmerging Leaders in Nutrition

Science Poster Competition6:00 - 7:00 pm Hall B

Reshma Roshania Poster #36 12:00 - 1:00 pm Halls A & B/ The Hub

Whitney LeetEmerging Leaders in Nutrition

Science Poster Competition6:00 - 7:00 pm Hall B

Sunday, June 9, 2019

Joe Roberts Poster theater flash session 2:00 – 3:00 pm Poster Theater 1

Becca Jones Poster

Monday, June 10, 2019

Lucas Gosdin Poster #319 12:45 - 1:45 pm Halls A & B/ The Hub

Siran He Poster Halls A & B/ The Hub

Alysse Sekkarie Poster 1:45 - 2:45 pm Halls A & B/ The Hub

Rukshan Mehta Poster theater flash session 8:00 - 9:30 am Poster Theater 2

Kristine Dennis Poster 1:45 - 2:45 pm Halls A & B/ The Hub

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Whitney Leet Oral presentation 8:00 - 10:00 am Room 319/320

GRANT OPPORTUNITIES(AGGREGATED HERE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEARCH THROUGH HUNDREDS OF ARCHIVED EMAILS)

USDA Mcgovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program Organization: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-FAS-MCGOVERN-DOLE-PROGRAM-19 Application Deadline: May 29, 2019 at 5:00 P.M More information here. CDC Early Care and Education - Obesity Prevention Fellowship Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Reference code: CDC-NCCDPHP-2019-0118 Application Deadline: May 15, 2019 at 3:00 P.M. More information here. Laney Graduate School JPE Mini Grants Application Deadline: June 1, 2019 The Jones Program in Ethics is pleased to announce a series of mini-grants for LaneyGraduate School PhD student research projects. Thinking broadly about how ethicsintertwines with your research, a successful proposal will highlight particular ways yourproject engages in ethics. This could include, but is not limited to, a philosophical question,a pragmatic application, or a challenge to, or support of, cultural and societal norms. These grants will be awarded to individuals (or a group) who are engaged in the statedresearch project. Additionally, preference will be given to those who reach acrossprograms and disciplines with colleagues to explore ethical questions. Winners will berequired to make a short public presentation of their work as a JPE 610 in Spring 2020.Applicants must be in good standing with the Laney Graduate School and their programsat the time of application and the award period. Research Dietitian Organization: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Reference code: USAMRMC-RIEM-2019-0003

More information here Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics Approaches for Nutrition Research (R01 ClinicalTrial Optional) Organization: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Reference code: R01 Research Project Grant Open Date: January 6, 2018 Expiration Date: September 8, 2019 More information here

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Dr. Yaw Addo

Yaw Addo PhD, Doctoral Faculty NHS, Asst Prof of Global Health at RSPH and EmoryGHI, Epidemiologist with CDC-Nutrition Branch (joint appointment with Emory).

Dr. Addo's academic path to current position

Dr. Addo received his BSc Hons Nutrition/Food Science (double major, Ghana), and thenwent on to purse MS Nutritional Sciences (with Epidemiology) at University of Cincinnati,OH and then PhD in Nutrition & Epidemiology at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, MNUSA. He had his post-doc training in Maternal and Child Nutrition at Emory and has sincestayed on as a faculty.

He has research interests in maternal child health, nutritional epidemiology, healthsurveillance systems, and factors and/or ‘insults’ that impact growth and health of childrenin different environments. This research interest in child growth was piqued by hisexposure to the WHO Multicenter Growth Reference Study (MGRS) on which hisundergrad advisor served as a site-PI for Ghana. Coming from a developing country tostudy in the US, the nutrition research he started with was not on child under-nutrition butrather an exposure to research in industrialized setting and on nutrition as related tochronic disease outcomes. He went directly into a doctoral program after MS degree withkey goal of gaining experience in nutrition, child growth, and health surveillance datasetsfrom industrialized (both free living and clinical longitudinal) settings.

To be able to develop skills of handling data, he continued taking elective methodscourses, which have proven to be handy throughout the years. By way of this data heavydoctoral training, he also got to work with research and practicing pediatricians on severalchild growth projects – further enriching experiences. Postdoc at Emory was a greatfollow-on to his previous research as it added another dimension of training, and, he got tolook at impact of early life growth over the lifecourse and intergenerational analyses oflarge international prospective birth cohort data from low to middle income countries. Additionally, he got the opportunity to work on impact evaluation programs in nutrition andinfectious disease with the Emory Global Health Institute. Towards the end of post-doc atEmory, he got involved with several CDC projects concerning international micronutrientmalnutrition in and currently serves as an Epidemiologist on this team at CDC (a jointappointment with Emory). What did you enjoy the most about your graduate school experience? The flexibility of his doctoral training. Due to his interest in child growth, his doctoraladvisor designed independent/directed study credit hours for several semesters. Thisenabled him to read works of others, mostly textbooks, learning about content and growthresearch methods, and practicing them on his own with real dataset. He got to work withinteresting dataset from very specialized populations clinical, community living andorphanage/adoption settings. He learned a great deal from these research exposures andhas several research projects from these interactions to date. The NHS rotation programis akin to the independent study plan he was privileged to pursue. Do you have any professional development advice for NHS students? Take advantage of your rotation experience! It gives a great opportunity to think about adifferent research question, diversify your scope, learn a new skill, build a network ofcolleagues, all of which will be priceless. Furthermore, your dissertation work might justcome out of your rotation. While diversifying is good, it also great to have niche of researchof interest of your own. If you have the time, don’t shy away from taking methods classes(biostatistics or epidemiology) and big data. Describe any challenging and exciting parts of your current position To able to contribute to scientific knowledge in publications and generating tools for growthmonitoring that are being used by clinicians for patient care, being involved the publichealth implementation programs in countries that have yielded results and tools foradvocacy and program scalability to ministries of health are to name just a few things thatinduce excitement. My greatest challenge is being so excited about my work that I often overload myself withprojects and responsibilities. I find these contributions humbling and they keep me eagerabout what’s next. What do you like to do in your free time? Spending time with family and going to different parks, festivals, and fairs is one of

his favorite activities. He also enjoys reading novels, tends to look for authors by eachcontinent. He is currently reading works by Asian authors (it’s taking him 4 months tocomplete his latest novel!). He loves sports: track, soccer (he is a diehard Arsenal fun),he also follows a few national football(soccer) teams. Potential Rotation Opportunities with Dr. Yaw Addo 1. Question pertaining to implementation and impact evaluation of rotavirus vaccineintroduction against diarrhea in children under 5years in Kenya – Emory GHI 2. BRINDA –Malaria, hemoglobinopathies and Erythropoiesis in Children Under 5 years

SPRING SEMESTER PHOTOS

Dr. Miriam Vos, Director of Graduate Studies, was awarded NHS Faculty Mentor Awardduring Recruitment Weekend February 2019. Catherine Cioffi (4th year) presented theaward.

NHS End of Semester Dinner on April 25, 2019.

NHS students at RSPH PhD student mixer May 1, 2019.

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